On the one-year anniversary of the launch of the wildly popular podcast series, S-Town, the program's creator, Brian Reed, and fact checker, Ben Phalen, joined Dr. Jack Caravanos to talk about the impact of mercury poisoning on the life and death of the show's protagonist, John B. McLemore.
Downloaded over 75 million times, it was a unique experience to have two members of the Peabody Award-winning team from This American Life come to campus to talk about the podcast with Dr. Caravanos, who provided his expertise to the show on the symptoms of mercury exposure and poisoning. Brian Reed said of John B. McLemore, "He understood just through his work on clocks and study of world history the capacity for human accomplishment."